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Japanese Cherry Blossom Festival

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Sakura Pictures - Light in Pink (c) tata aka at Flickr

How to celebrate Japanese Cherry Blossom Festival just like the Japanese?

The Best of Japan festivals and Japans culture!

During Cherry Blossom celebrations, Japan is filled with visitors carrying huge cameras, trying to catch some great cherry blossom pictures.

Capturing the beauty of Cherry Blossom in Japan is not easy.
In Tokyo, the festival takes place around the end of March and beginning of April.

If the weather during the months before the season is relatively mild, cherry blossom trees will open early. If it was cold, the cherry blossom flower will open later.


The start of the Japanese Cherry Festival in Japan can vary From year to year by as much as two weeks.


The Cherry Blossom in Japan is relatively short. Japanese cherry blossom trees bloom within one week after the opening of the first blossoms.
A week later, the cherry blossom flower bloom is over, and the cherry blossom flowers are falling from the trees.


So there is a sense of urgency that comes with this festival. Japan is known for having many amateur photographers.


Cherry Blossom in Japan is the highlight of the year as they carry very professional looking cameras,
trying to get some great cherry blossom pictures.

cherry blossom pictures - Hanami at Shinjuku Gyoen (c) elmimmo at Flickr

Cherry Blossom In Japan

Even if your vacation in Tokyo falls at the end of the festival, it's still a big attraction as the cherry blossom flower petals fall very beautifully and look like pink snowflakes.


In Japan Cherry Blossom Japanese people see an opportunity to wind down, socialize and drink. By evening time most participants of the festival will find it hard to recognize a cherry blossom branch from a traffic sign.


Planning to visit Tokyo during Japanese Cherry Blossom Festival?

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